Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
Windows Media Player can only play DVD's if you already have other software installed that can play DVD's. The easiest and cheapest solution to playing DVD's without buying extra software or trawling the internet for plugins is to download a free media player program called VLC (www.getvlc.com).